Overview

From today’s perspective, Charles Dickens seems to continue a British tradition in which dynamism and movement are central. This serves as a starting point for a bicentenary conference held by the English Department of Leipzig University in October 2012. The contributions united in this volume cover the three categories of geography, adaptation and reception of Dickens’ works. Whether in a physical, imaginary or virtual sense, notions of space, time and change are fundamental to all of these fields. They inform both Dickens’ narrative and his biography, in which acts of movement, exchange and transformation are perpetually performed. Articles discuss Dickens’ travels in London and abroad, but also Chesterton’s Dickens or his reception in Australia and New Zealand.

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Author:   Stefan Welz ,  Elmar Schenkel
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.400kg
ISBN:  

9783631641583

ISBN 10:   3631641583
Pages:   182
Publication Date:   27 March 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Elmar Schenkel: Moving through the Night: Dickens’s Walks in Nocturnal London – Stefan Lampadius: American Notes and Dickens’ Projects of Reform – Maria Fleischhack: Multilayered Identity and Palimpsest in Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit – Stefan Welz: Dickens Goes South: A Gentleman’s Perspective – Franziska Burstyn: Charles Dickens: A Disney Carol. Disney’s Adaptations of Dickens’ Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol – Franziska E. Kohlt: Back to the Future: The Time Traveller’s Traumatic Jetlag in A Christmas Carol – Luise Wolff: «The world warped to his fancy»: Charles Dickens in Richard Flanagan’s Wanting – Anna Wille: «Dickens did not write what the people wanted. Dickens wanted what the people wanted.» G.K. Chesterton’s Charles Dickens as character and critique – Marie-Luise Egbert: «Please, sir, I want some more»: Representations of Poverty on the Move – Dietmar Böhnke: The Lost Leipzig Letters: Charles Dickens, Bernhard Tauchnitz and the German Connection – Max Hübner: Charles Dickens and New Zealand: A Long-Distance Relationship with a Future.

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Stefan Welz teaches English Literature and New English Literatures at Leipzig University and has translated literary works of various English and American authors. Elmar Schenkel is Professor of English at Leipzig University. He is the director of the studium universale, a writer and a translator.

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